THE LANDSCAPE ALBUM. New York: Published by Leavitt & Allen, n.d. [1840s]. 20x17 cm (quarto), variously colored blank leaves, vignette title page, four inserted plates with tissue guards, publisher's decorated red leather elaborately lettered and tooled in gold and blind, a.e.g., pink endpapers. Three of the engravings, made from drawings by various artists (including W. H. Bartlett), depict landscape in foreign lands (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Italy). The fourth is an engraving showing Bedford Springs, a resort in the Allegheny Mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania (drawn by "A. Koelner" [Augustus Köllner] probably in 1840; engraved by W. H. Ellis). The resort is a National Historic Landmark that grew around eight natural mineral springs. John Anderson, a doctor from Bedford Country, was the first proprietor and founder of what would become the Bedford Springs Hotel. The construction of the first building of the Bedford Springs Hotel, the Stone Building, was completed in 1806. The Hotel was restored to its original splendor and reopened in 2007. 120 million dollars were spent to restore the once popular hotel. The 2200 acre resort is currently managed by Omni Hotels and Resorts. Leather lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, three of the plates and tissue guards are foxed, the foxing to the Bedford Springs plate is restricted to the margins, a very good copy. An attractive, unused copy of a popular blank book reprinted many times. (#178892).
Price: $250.00
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